Live from Alabama
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Live from Alabama
Live from the slaughterhouse Live from the night's work |
| Country of production |
 Germany
|
| Year (s) | 1984-1997 |
| Production company |
Bavarian radio |
| First broadcast | January 2, 1984 on Bavarian TV |
Live from the Alabama (later Live from the slaughterhouse and Live from the night work ) was the title of the renowned weekly youth magazine of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). The broadcast was named after the recording locations - starting with the Alabama Hall in Munich - from which it was broadcast live.
In terms of content, the focus was on discussions on topics such as AIDS , right-wing radicalism , drugs and occultism . The roundtables were concluded with music concerts (including Böhse Onkelz , Die Ärzte , Eros Ramazzotti , Smashing Pumpkins ).
history
It was first broadcast live from Alabama on January 2, 1984 in the third program of Bayerischer Rundfunk. The show was very successful from the start. In 1986, the editor Gerd Aschmann received the special live prize of the Adolf Grimme Prize for a discussion on AIDS . On October 18, 1984, a program was broadcast in the main evening program of the First Program , as a contribution by the BR to a series of ARD youth evenings, which were presented one after the other by the individual ARD stations in 1983/1984. From 1986 to 1994 the magazine was produced as a co-production with Hessischer Rundfunk . The ZDF developed on the model of Live from the Alabama the series colon , which in 3sat was repeated.
The recording location of the broadcast changed several times, which also involved a change of name: after the demolition of the first Alabama hall , the broadcast moved to the tavern in the slaughterhouse in 1988 . From Frankfurt am Main until its demolition in the former slaughterhouse there was recorded. 1991 to 1994 broadcast from the night work , 1994/95 from the (new) Alabama hall on the site of the former radio barracks . Finally, the consignment returned to the slaughterhouse. The series changed style and focus several times in order to maintain the forum of the core clientele. From 1996 onwards this was increasingly less successful. Therefore, the Bavarian Broadcasting decided the end of the series with the last issue on December 18, 1997. The following broadcast became the series across .
The Alabama Principle
The series saw itself as a forum for the topics of young people. This related to the choice of subject and style. Young people discussed the different points of view and positions openly and controversially in their own language and live. That gave the series authenticity . Anyone who wanted to have a say could join the program. The Alabama principle was that you saw yourself as a guest among young people and not the other way around. This journalistic approach was quickly accepted by the target group. The broadcast was also the setting for the comedy series The time is ripe for Ernst Eiswürfel . Each issue saw itself as broadcast space, consisting of the discussion mentioned, a live concert and, in the first years, the Formula One music video broadcast . Many internationally known music groups had live performances in Live from Alabama: Trio, Eros Ramazzotti, Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung, Billy Idol, Smashing Pumpkins, and many more. Some later successful German-speaking music groups only became known to a larger audience through the broadcast. B. JBO , Hubert von Goisern and Fiddler's Green .
Moderators and editors
Live from Alabama was the springboard of their careers for a number of moderators who later became very well-known and therefore had the reputation of a cadre forge for a long time . The presenters from the very beginning include Christian Eckert, Amelie Fried (later talk show presenter), the comedian Eisi Gulp , Sabine Noethen (later news anchor at N24 ), Werner Schmidbauer (who still moderates a number of programs on BR today) and Giovanni di Lorenzo (later editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and moderator of the talk show 3 to 9 ). Starting in 1985, the moderator teams that had changed before were replaced for two years by Günther Jauch as permanent moderator. Sandra Maischberger (from 1989) and Anna Bosch (from 1996) also presented the series later . In the first few years, the series was edited by Jürgen Barto, Christian Eckert and Ernst Geier, then by Sonja Kochendörfer and Wolfgang Mezger. The latter developed the follow-up program Quer . For two years in the mid-1980s, Thomas Gruber , who later became the director of Bayerischer Rundfunk, was responsible for the series.
List of moderators
- Christian Eckert
- Amelie Fried
- Giovanni di Lorenzo
- Werner Schmidbauer
- Claus Kruesken
- Catrin Berger
- Martina rule
- Günther Jauch
- Birgit Klaus
- Sandra Maischberger
- Michaela Haas
- Sabine Noethen
- Christoph Bauer
- Anna Bosch
- Georg Holzach
- Jan Kruger
- Fritz Egner
- Barbara Stoeckl
- Benny Schnier
- Eisi Gulp
- Jacqueline chair
source
Web links
Live from Alabama at Fernsehserien.de